Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.

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1 Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated .
2 This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard .
3 If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’
4 We lay side by side on the floor all over the house — there must have been a dozen or more of us , including nice old Ma Mi who was delighted to see us .
5 To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief .
6 erm , and a lot of them training , but unless you can actually erm , increase their confidence , and that is the attitude of the people all over the place .
7 Kuwait government and the people of Kuwait provided assistance to the Palestinians all over the world , including the Palestinians living in occupied land .
8 Resulting from our systematical radio monitoring work around the clock all over the world .
9 Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on .
10 FURY erupted in a border town in the Republic yesterday over a sentence imposed on a hit-and-run driver from Ulster who left a young Gaelic footballer dying on a country road .
11 I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork .
12 They can then be placed in a bowl or aquarium with the water just over the surface of the compost .
13 It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) .
14 Little is known about his activities in Parliament , but in 1628 he opposed the billeting of troops and was summoned before the Privy Council ; four years later he was in conflict with the authorities again over musters .
15 And what do we expect the tenants on another sink estate to do when their toilets overflow , spewing sewage from the pipes outside over their bathroom floors ?
16 Something heavy had been torn away and , bouncing twice , landed flat on the deck directly over their heads .
17 Once you have made your guess place the template with the centre of the hole directly over the point you have guessed .
18 In other ways , too , the early nineteen thirties marked a period of hesitancy and some pessimism within the District both over its future growth and even its survival .
19 Shaun Udal is the 23-year-old Hampshire Offspinner who up to now in a brief career has stimulated discussion in the Press-boxes mostly over the favoured pronunciation of his name .
20 She erm lived in a rented room in a settlement house in New York and she really provided the , the energy of the movement all over the country .
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